{"id":1345,"date":"2016-12-23T13:49:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T05:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2016-12-23T13:49:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T05:49:54","slug":"on-calling-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/on-calling-2\/","title":{"rendered":"On Calling (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon, as I read and reply a friend&#8217;s email, suddenly i got a glimpse of what a Calling means.<\/p>\n<p>This friend of mine wrote a very encouraging email about our faithfulness in serving the Lord in a specific ministry. And looking back for the reason of me staying for so long, I told him it&#8217;s simply this &#8220;burden&#8221; that the Lord has put in my heart. And I simply can not do another way. It&#8217;s not that I never give up, or a faithful person&#8230;I got discouraged, sad, and thought of giving up many times&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But it is just that everytime I was about to throw the towel, this burden simply stayed there. And for one reason or another, God himself had always &#8220;surprised&#8221; me at that moments, such that I would end up continuing instead of quitting.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s very obvious to me, it&#8217;s simply not my passion, or my strength, or my vision, or anything within me that keep me. But it&#8217;s the Lord who has kept me for His purpose. So on the subject of &#8220;calling&#8221;, it&#8217;s actually bigger than ourselves. Only by God&#8217;s sustaining grace if we ever fulfill His calling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon, as I read and reply a friend&#8217;s email, suddenly i got a glimpse of what a Calling means. This friend of mine wrote a very encouraging email about our faithfulness in serving the Lord in a specific ministry. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/on-calling-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,56,67],"tags":[129,168],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-providence","category-restful","category-thankful","tag-calling","tag-friendship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":691,"url":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/grateful\/","url_meta":{"origin":1345,"position":0},"title":"Grateful","author":"clay","date":"November 11, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Just feeling simply grateful. 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